Benitez thought about it, but couldn't find any tactics that could completely contain Barcelona, and he was only able to let Manchester City play defensive counterattacks at home, first to ensure that they did not concede goals, and then to see the situation in the game, and let Glory do the sharp knife.

To put it bluntly, it is to count on the glorious personal ability.

In defence, they were determined not to give Barcelona the space and time they wanted.

Messi is naturally strictly guarded, and at least two people follow him. Construct a defensive line of centre-backs and midfielders at the edge of the penalty area, and because of the video footage of Messi's game, Benitez believes that Messi's lateral lead from the right to the middle is often the most dangerous time for Barcelona's attack.

In the back and forth between Messi and the central receiver, the defense of the defending side was torn apart.

When everyone's attention was on Messi with the ball, he no longer knew that his backline was also empty.

The rest of the Barcelona players took advantage of the situation and could completely disrupt the defence.

Many of Barcelona's goals last season and this season have been scored in this way, either by Messi at the end or by Pedro and Andres Iniesta.

Pedro and Iniesta often score goals with the defender's focus on Messi, and the defense on the guide's side is completely empty, and Pedro and Iniesta can easily score the goal.

With Xavi as a master passer in midfield, he could be caught at the slightest bit of space.

So against Barcelona, from the first second to the last second, you have to concentrate and relax a little bit, and the goal will come to you.

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Benitez made his own arrangements, but he didn't have a score in mind, unlike playing other games, and when he made a tactical decision, he could roughly guess what this strategy would look like in the game.

In the match against Barcelona, even Benitez was a little unsure.

It can be seen that Barcelona is strong.

But actually...... Their opponents, Barcelona, are no better than them......

Guardiola didn't find a good way to curb Glory in the end, foul tactics or something, there is a lesson from Manchester United in the FA Cup final, foul Glory, unless you can directly let Glory be stretchered down when you commit the first foul, otherwise, it is a disguised assist for Glory.

Pep Guardiola certainly won't let glory break his leg for the sake of a game victory.

So he's struggling right now.

He had planned to look for footage of City's losing games and find something to use for himself.

As a result, he searched and found only one video of the game, which was City's 2-0 defeat at Everton, the only game they had lost in more than a year.

If you want to find it again, it is the game between Benitez and Manchester City, Manchester City at that time did not even have a unified tactical idea, the table was terrible, and the current Manchester City is completely two teams. If you look for Manchester City in that period as a reference, you can only go astray, and you will not be wronged in the end.

With a video of a game, how do you study it?

Moreover, the result of this game has no reference value at all, and the results and numbers of a single game in football are meaningless.

Therefore, the victory of this game can only be an isolated case, and it does not prove that Everton's method of beating Manchester City is effective. Barcelona can't look at their style of play.

In the end, after thinking about it, Guardiola decided to "focus on me" away from home, play the football that Barcelona is good at, firmly control the football at his feet, dominate the field, dominate the overall table of the team, and use Barcelona's strong overall strength to overwhelm Manchester City.

Strive to seize the initiative.

As long as Barcelona can get one away goal, it will be considered a complete task, and if there are two away goals, it will be considered an overachievement.

As for the matter of winning, Guardiola sees it very lightly, and he believes that the final battle will definitely be at Camp Nou.

Although Barcelona are the defending champions, Pep Guardiola is not underestimating Manchester City, who are playing in the Champions League for the first time in four decades.

With Manchester City's performance in the Champions League this season, it is enough to make people value them, not to mention that they still have a big killer like glory.

Pep Guardiola knows very well that if he underestimates Manchester City, he must be the one who is unlucky in the end. Bayern Munich and Real Madrid are examples of what they have learned.

So at Manchester City's home stadium, Pep Guardiola doesn't force the team to win, of course, if he can win, it will be the best.

But also be prepared for a tough battle away from home.

As for Glory, as long as he is controlled to the point where he can score a maximum of one goal in a game, then Barcelona can be considered to have completed a successful defense.

Guardiola has to do this kind of psychological construction because Glory is so perverted.

Regarding how powerful the glory is, Guardiola has heard it with his own ears and seen it with his own eyes, and he must be especially vigilant about the team that this man is in.

He has also highlighted this to his players in training as well.

What makes him happy is that his players are not tired of this repeated emphasis on him, nor do they resist, and they are very receptive.

This may have something to do with the fact that there are some players in the team who have a good relationship with Glory.

Iniesta is simply a brain-dead fan of glory, and Xavi admires glory very much, Messi even once regarded glory as his goal to catch up, Ibrahimovic also regarded glory as his biggest enemy, plus Ronaldinho, who has left the team......

With these people, Barcelona really doesn't dare to underestimate the glory, as well as ...... The team where Glory is located.

When the glory was still in Werder Bremen, the strength of the team was far worse than the current Manchester City, but because of the glory, they were able to score two goals against Barcelona at the Camp Nou, and when they returned to home, they could beat Barcelona 3:1!

All five goals were related to Glory, who scored two goals at Camp Nou and returned home with one goal and two assists.

Barcelona has nothing to do with glory.

Now having good teammates like Berbatov, David Silva and Sneijder on Glory's side has helped Glory a lot and made it even more difficult for Glory to deal with.

In the eyes of the outside world, this game may be a game in which Barcelona has the advantage, and Manchester City can only count on Glory alone.

But no one knew that the tension in the Barcelona squad was no less than that of Manchester City......

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Four days is always a long and very short time before the Great War.

The long one is for the fans who are waiting for the game, who are counting down every day and counting how many minutes until the game starts...... Yes, their countdowns are accurate to the minute, not the hour.

The shortness is for the players on both sides of the game, but when they find that the game is coming, they just hate that 24 hours a day is not enough, and they feel that they still have a lot of unpracticed, why is the game coming?

The Barcelona squad departed for Manchester after a league weekend.

This also shows the importance that Guardiola attaches to Manchester City.

Barcelona, who arrived in Manchester ahead of schedule, will borrow Manchester United's training base for training, and they are so close to Manchester City's training base that the media jokes that if Benitez or Pep Guardiola shout something in training, both sides can hear each other, and there is no secret to these two teams.

Of course, this is a joke and cannot be true.

Pep Guardiola's side, who train at Manchester United's training base, still attract a lot of attention.

Every day there are a large number of fans and journalists here, and there were only Manchester United fans before, but now the Barcelona fans have also come here, and the two sides get along quite well.

Manchester United, for their part, seem to have forgotten who snatched the Champions League title from them last season.

Now it's already good for the two brothers.

Because they found a common enemy.

For more than a year, with Manchester City's strong rise, Manchester United, who are closest to Manchester City, were the first to feel the threat of Manchester City.

The FA Cup was snatched by Manchester City last season, and this season we see that the league title will also be robbed.

If Manchester City can be deflated, Manchester United must be very happy, let alone loan it to the Barcelona training base that beat them in the Champions League final last season, even if they want to lend Rooney to Barcelona, I'm afraid it's no problem!

Every day, the Barcelona team called their bus from the hotel to Manchester United's training base, and then took the bus from the United training base back to the hotel after training.

So at least twice a day, they can see the Manchester City badge - because the bus passes by a small junction outside the Manchester City training base, which is marked with the Manchester City crest on it, and there are arrows pointing deeper into the path, telling everyone to go inside to Manchester City's Carrington training base.

Every time you pass by this intersection, someone inside the bus will look at you.

Andres Iniesta, Messi, and Ibrahimovic.

It was as if their eyes could follow the path all the way in, see Manchester City's training ground go up, and then find glory on the training ground.

This guy is here to prepare for the race against them!

I wonder how he is preparing?